Complaint: NYS sues John O’Connor, Susan Bruno

The former head of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York and his former special assistant are facing charges of filing false time sheets that defrauded the public of $165,000.

The charges, lodged by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, allege that John J. O’Connor and Susan Bruno certified that Bruno had worked at the Research Foundation when she was not doing anything of the sort. This happened at least 47 times, Schneiderman says in a complaint filed Tuesday in state Supreme Court in Albany County.

Here’s the full complaint, which beginning on page 10 includes an inventory of instances in which Bruno said she was doing other things than working for the Research Foundation — including traveling with her father, former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno; mowing the lawn at home; taking her pet in for a bath; or staying home watching coverage of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s March 2008 resignation — but failed to deduct those hours from the regular activity reports that served as her timesheets: